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On a rough-sketch hill painted in sunset colors that do not suit its crude lines, an achromatic girl in a school uniform gazes up at the sky. A running turtle and a swimming whale. A picture where the night sky and the sun coexist.

The album art for Group Sound’s first EP, [Plastic Nostalgia], seemed to capture the emotions of children who had only just emerged from adolescence—unsteadily wavering, yet trying to stay optimistic about the future (at least, that was what the illustrator claimed)…

Most of the songs blended pop and J-rock. Yet their sound could not be called an attempt to follow the current trend in Japanese music. Each track had its own specific genre, but the album’s overall color was similar.

There were five tracks in total.

The prerelease track, [Ashen Days].

Then there was [Sternstunde], a song that had earned praise from active musicians.

[I Wish Someone Would Buy Me Meat], a calm song about the joys of ordinary life.

[Pointed Fingers], which spoke of emotions that constantly changed and writhed unpredictably.

And the title track, [Leap Across That Distance], had an atmosphere quite different from that of the prerelease track.

If [Ashen Days] spoke of something close to an ineffable longing for the past, [Leap Across That Distance] was a lively, cute, ticklish song that whispered of love...